This thesis considers selected, repeated motifs in Louise Glück's poetry, particularly those related to issues of gender, hunger and control. I argue that in the poems gender is constructed in terms of oppositional dualism, ...

This thesis identifies and analyses the incidence of domestic violence, in particular, wife beating and battering, in the Indo-Fijian community in Fiji. It is argued that this serves as a strong source of social control ...

The thesis asserts that a study of the images of women painted by Frances Hodgkins reveals much about the difficulties for the woman painter of gaining a place within modernist discourse, and also much about the impossibility ...

This study examines how work is perceived from a women's perspective. It commences with a review of the theoretical material presently available to conceptualise women's work and an analysis of recent research work on this ...

I invite you to journey with me on an exploration of social constructions of mothering, relationships, and living on the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). The story behind this thesis is my own and follows Catherine Hall's ...

In a television programme on 4th November, 1966, "The New Zealand Woman," it was stated that, "Women's influence, particularly women's organisations' influence, has been below the surface." It has not been vocally obvious; ...

This thesis attempts to survey women's part in the Labour force in New Zealand concentrating mainly on the period since 1936. In order to obtain a better basis of comparison the census figures of 1926 have also been included, ...

The dual aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse some aspects of a sample group of women students at Victoria University, who had pre-school children, and to explore the adequacy-suitability and proximity of the early ...

In the past two decades there has been an astounding increase in New Zealand women's drama, particularly noticeable given the dearth in early New Zealand of indigenous professional work. This local efflorescence is part ...

This thesis explores how women cope emotionally with breast cancer and how they eventually rebuild their lives in the aftermath of this traumatic experience. I describe how women experience the health system, and attempt ...